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Former Sotheby's CEO Pleads
Guilty to Violating Antitrust Laws

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Vanessa O'Connell Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Oct. 6, 2000 3:47 a.m. ET

NEW YORK -- Blaming her onetime boss, real-estate magnate A. Alfred Taubman, for her woes, Diana D. Brooks, the former president and chief executive of Sotheby's Holdings Inc., pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate antitrust laws.

The guilty plea by Ms. Brooks, 50 years old, brings to an end a career that had made her the most powerful woman in the international art world. Ms. Brooks now faces as much as three years in prison and...